When you're out carp fishing, one of the problems you encounter is telling the difference between a big liner and an aborted take.
A typical scenario goes like this: you're patiently waiting for a carp to pick up your bait, and each of a sudden you get a flurry of beeps from your alarm or possibly even the end of one's rod begins to nod and you think you have a fish hooked. You're sure the lead has shifted and hurrying towards the rod you readily strike in to what you expect to be a huge carp however it actually turns out to be fresh-air. You wind in, frantically hoping to produce contact with the fish but to no avail, there's nothing at the end of one's line. You inspect the hook, then inspect the carp rig and wonder what happened. I recently created a method to enhance your carp rig that will tell you if you have had a large liner or an aborted take.
How to switch your carp platform
For sometime it is been widely recognized that introducing a little bit of silicon pipe to slide over the shank of the hook and capture the hair can be used as a telltale sign to indicate whether or not a carp has taken out the bait. Given that is all well and good, I have tried it but I have managed to move on. I am very happy with the performance of my carp platform and I do not desire to change the way it works. With my rig, when the carp accumulates the lead, shakes its head or goes off, the lead will fall off the silicon tube, slide down the road and become a running rig, ergo avoiding the carp from utilizing the lead to swing out the catch and providing you good bite indication no matter what way it swims.
So what I started doing recently is leaving the tail that is left after I have tied the 5 change double knot about 30-40mm long. I then slide the silicon tube over the end of the eye of the swivel which pushes the tail forwards towards the swivel. Once I'm all set and ready to move, I slide straight back the lead off the silicon tube onto the mainline. Then I consider the long knot tail and poke it into the hole in the centre of the inline lead where in fact the insert was previously. Holding the tail against the silicon tube, I gently slide the lead back off over both silicon tube and the tail to tarp the tail. Only try this hard enough in order that the lead only grips the pipe when held by the baits. This is how the rig will likely then fish, butt stuck ready for action. If a fish sees the lure, shakes its head or moves off, the cause slides off.
Knowing you've had an aborted take
In this example, say your hook was not sharp enough or the fish was only nicked and the carp fishing gets away with. A couple of seconds later, you strike into outdoors, reel in and check the cause. If the end is now totally exposed, un-tucked if you like, you know that you have just been done and a rigorous examination of the hook is needed. What happens is this: when the guide slides back, the end jumps out and kicks forwards because the silicon tube bends its back towards the swivel. On the retrieve, the guide slides back over the silicon and the swivel, and stops the tail from re-entering the hole. Therefore regrettably, you've had an aborted simply take, but at the very least you could be almost hundreds of sure that that is what it was.
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Realizing it was just a large liner
In the next example, let us say a sturgeon or a large catfish sees among your lines having its pecs and gives you a spectacular mini get. Since it will be taken by the mainline the lead gets ripped sideways over the gravel. The guide doesn't lose connection with the silicon tube pushed within the swivel because it is being pulled onto it. You attack what you believe to be a real take and then feel no weight. You wind in, inspect the lead and the tell-tale tail remains neatly tucked to the lead. Now you know that it was only a big boat, you've still got to re-do the pole but you'd have wished to do that anyway after the rig and cause (particularly the hook) have been dragged on the bottom.
The thing is you know just what happened by considering the state-of the end in the lead so give it a decide to try next time you are out and remember: the lead never lies!
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